Just after the beginning of spring, the fields have burst out of greenery sporadically, and the birds are chirping in the trees, as if they are also happy for the first rain of spring.

And the weather that had just warmed up for a few days, it seemed to be cold again when the wind blew, Tian Tian slept a little shrunken, half-asleep and half-awake and pulled the quilt to turn over and sleep again, he heard movement in the courtyard, turned his head and saw that the eldest sister's bed was already empty, hurriedly got up and went to the ground, put on a jacket and tied a long skirt and came out, and saw that the eldest sister Tian Rou was already busy in the stove, so he asked softly: "Eldest sister, get up so early today?" ”

Tian Rou turned her head to look at the courtyard and whispered: "Grandma listened to the words of the queen yesterday, and said that today we will go up the mountain together to beg for the son Guanyin, and it seems that she also said that she will go to a place in the back mountain, where the mountain spring water flows out of Guanyin's net bottle, and if you take the water back and drink it, you will definitely be able to give birth to a boy." Last night, I was told to go for a day today, so I got up early to bring pancakes for lunch! ”

Tian Tian pouted in her heart when she heard this, she had received more than ten years of socialist education, where would she believe this set of feudal superstitions, but when she traveled back to these days in ancient times, she also understood how much people believe in life today, so naturally she couldn't say anything, so she only nodded slightly and said: "If you can really give birth to a son, your mother's life will be better." ”

Hearing this, Tian Rou hurriedly made a silent gesture at her, obviously afraid that she would be heard by others and cause unnecessary trouble. Tian Tian didn't say much, washed up quickly, and came over to help the eldest sister with him.

Li washed himself in the courtyard, and when he entered the house, he saw his two granddaughters busy making breakfast, and he picked up the curtain and went into the house without squeaking.

Tian Tian helped the eldest sister roll out the cakes, and took a look in the courtyard, her mother He was struggling to sweep the floor with a big belly, and the eldest uncle and the second uncle lived in the east and west wings, and there was no sound at all at this time, she ran out and took the broom and said loudly: "Mother, you have a big belly now, why don't you sleep for a while, get up so early and sweep the floor, if you wake up the uncle and the second uncle's family, it will be bad." ”

He has never been a person who likes to cause trouble, and always feels that even if he does more things, as long as everyone is kind, he is happier than anything else, not to mention that he has given birth to two daughters in a row for so many years, and he inevitably feels unconfident in front of his mother-in-law and two sisters-in-law, and he can't wait to take any work to himself, although he knows that his daughter also feels sorry for himself, but he still said angrily: "What do your children know, I just sweep the floor, and I won't be tired." ”

Li heard the movement in the house, looked at He's stomach and said: "The third family, according to what your aunt Wang said, you are afraid that you are going to give birth in the past few days, and you have nothing to do and less activities, so as not to see red in advance, I will follow your Aunt Wang to the mountains to worship the Bodhisattva and ask for a son, and I will go to the back mountain to pick up the fairy water, I heard that it is difficult to walk in the mountains, I am afraid that I will go for a whole day, you are good at home, if there is anything, just call your two sisters-in-law to do it." ”

He rarely heard his mother-in-law's concern, and he was a little flattered and said: "Mother, my daughter-in-law knows, I feel that there is nothing wrong with me in the past two days, and I don't care if I move a little." ”

"You think I feel sorry for you to work, I'm afraid that you will tire my grandson!" Seeing that she was kind and she didn't go down the steps, Li Shi immediately rolled his eyes and said, "If you don't stay in the house yet, you won't be able to die if you don't sweep the ground in the yard for a day." ”

Seeing this, He didn't dare to say more, put down the broom and went back to the house, and the east and west wings naturally heard the outside talking, and soon the door of the east wing was open, and the eldest daughter-in-law Zhang walked out while pouting her sideburns and said: "Who is this who upsets my mother early in the morning?" ”

The second daughter-in-law, Zhu, also went out of the door on her feet: "It's just that someone pretends to be diligent in the morning, and when they don't pretend to be right, they make people angry!" ”

Tian Tian was most unwilling to listen to the two of them talking in a weird way, leaned the broom against the wall, and walked towards the house by himself.

Zhang said behind him: "Girl, go in before you finish sweeping the ground?" ”

"Grandma just said, if you don't sweep it for a day, you can't kill people, if the aunt looks uncomfortable, sweep it yourself!" Tian Tian went into the house without looking back, and made the Zhang family so angry that he didn't know what to say in the courtyard with his mouth half open.

Seeing this, Zhu covered his mouth and smiled: "The girl of the third family is becoming more and more sharp. Then he turned around and went back to the house to do his own work.

After the whole family had breakfast together, Aunt Wang came to the house to look for the Li family, and the two of them went up the mountain together. Xu is because the Li family is not at home, the eldest and the second daughter-in-law are in their own house and did not come, this day is very quiet, Tian Rou cooked a meal at noon, and several people in their house also ate well. Tian Tian couldn't help but think that it would be good if the Li family was not at home every day, and he would be able to live a better life.

At the end of the day, Zhang raised his voice in the courtyard: "Yo, there is not much firewood at home, and my waist has been twisted in the past two days, I really don't know what to do." ”

Zhu naturally stayed in his house in a down-to-earth manner and didn't pay attention to it at all, but He listened to it a few times in the house, and his ass couldn't sit still, and he was about to go out when he got up, but Tian Tian grabbed him and said, "Mother, what are you going to do?" I'm afraid it's more inconvenient for you to twist your waist now! ”

He Shi was a little reluctant to say: "This time we should have collected firewood to cook, and your grandmother was not at home at noon, so it was okay to deal with it separately, and we couldn't fool around for a meal this night." ”

"Then I'll get it when Dad comes back!" Tian Tian still felt that it was inappropriate.

"Your father is tired in the field all day, is it possible that he has to work when he comes back?" He didn't care what his daughter said, he insisted on going out to collect firewood, Tian Tian had no choice but to go out to help, although Tian Rou came home and came over to help after a while, but He was still very tired, and suddenly covered his stomach and screamed pain.

Tian Tian hurriedly dropped the firewood in her hand to help, but where could her seven-year-old body support He, Tian Rou was also busy helping him, and the two of them hurriedly helped He back to the house, but her lower body was already wet.

He Shi said strongly: "Boss, you hurry up and invite Granny Feng from the village to come, and the second child will roll up the kang quilt, spread the hay, and then go to the fire to boil the water and boil two more pots." ”

Mrs. Feng is the midwife in the village, she has been doing this business all her life, the village is almost thirty years old and down are born through her hands, and the children of the Tian family are no exception, she herself has already estimated the days of the He family, and she is still worried about eating and seeing, but the rice has not yet been cooked, and she saw Tian Rou coming to call, so she hurriedly followed, and went in to see that the He family was already lying on the kang "oops, oops" and kept screaming, so she couldn't care about politeness and threw a few children out, and washed her hands and went to the kang to help.

Li and Wang Pozi came back from the mountain, almost too tired to lift their feet, the trail behind the mountain is stepped out by people's feet, it is already steep and difficult to walk, and now it has just rained, and it is even more terrifying to slip step by step, but in order to be able to ask for a grandson, she gritted her teeth and fought hard to walk back and forth, and all the way down the mountain were like babies holding the water bladder in her arms, but as soon as she got home, she heard a moan from the west wing, and was stunned at the door for a while and did not come back to her senses.

Seeing this, Mrs. Wang hurriedly said: "I congratulate the old sister here, I just went to worship the Bodhisattva and came back from the daughter-in-law to give birth, the old sister hurriedly took the water to feed, it was too late." ”

"Yes, yes......" Li came back to his senses at this time, and hurriedly rushed into the house to feed the water in the water bladder to He Shi to drink, and when he came out, he didn't care about changing his clothes and washing his face, so he waited anxiously for news.

Not long after, the cry of a child came from the back room, and Li Shi hurriedly opened the door and asked, "Is it a grandson?" ”

The eldest daughter-in-law came out with the scrubbed child and said, "Mother, it's another girl." ”

Li's face suddenly became difficult to look at, the energy just now was all gone, and all the tiredness of the day was piled up, so that she sat on the stool with her legs weak, closed her eyes and sighed, and even the newborn child didn't look at it directly, only waved her hand and said, "Okay, let's go in!" ”

The eldest daughter-in-law just wanted to speak, but Mrs. Feng in the house suddenly said loudly: "Yo, there's another one here!" ”